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...Roman mariners, and West Europeans weathered Viking onslaughts during the Middle Ages. In the 16th and 17th centuries, monarchs frustrated by Spain's dominance of the Caribbean commissioned privateers to harass the Spanish fleet--helping to usher in piracy's golden age, when swashbuckling marauders like Edward (Blackbeard) Teach roamed the sun-splashed islands, plundering gold and silver...
...result, bankers and money managers - not traditionally associated with feminist causes - are helping to power the region's slow-burn gender revolution. Investment firms like Merrill Lynch and private banks like the Swiss firm Clariden Leu have targeted Gulf millionairesses, some flying advisers out for teach-ins. Arab banks have also homed in on working women, issuing them credit cards and loans for cars and apartments...
...profile women investment bankers like Nahed Taher, head of Gulf One Investment Bank, and Global Investment House's Maha al-Ghunaim, provide inspiration. Eid estimates that when she attended the American University of Beirut in the mid-1980s, about 15% of finance students were female; when she returned to teach in 2000, she says, over half were women. Others simply school themselves. When Khalida Mirza started selling marble, she had a high school education and four kids, but she quickly taught herself business basics through books and magazines. Today, she has a property firm and gives women jargon-free investment...
...emphasized the flexible nature of the curriculum, calling the educational portal a “developmental sandbox” that will allow program participators to discover the most effective ways to teach and learn...
...first, I was a bit unsure about what exactly I would teach them,” she said. “But when I saw that the kids are really interested in all sorts of science, it made it easier for me to share my passion in really creative ways...